Conspiracy mentality drives misinformation about EVs
A ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû-led study has found misinformation about electric vehicles has taken root in society and is primarily fuelled by mistrust and conspiracy theories.
10 June 2025
Global study finds Australians are third most prolific swearers
Australians swear online less frequently than Americans or the British, according to new research on how English-speaking countries use vulgar language.
23 May 2025
Forget medals, ancient Games athletes battled for olive oil
The Olympics were only one aspect of sport in ancient Greece - often overlooked is that these Games were part of a circuit of 4 international sporting festivals.
9 May 2025
Anyone who’s slaved over a school sausage sizzle may not be surprised to learn that parents and friends raise an average $752 a year for every state school student in Australia.
12 February 2021
A short story for a University of Queensland project that evolved into the draft of a novel has helped secure Indigenous Arts student Sharlene Allsopp a prestigious literary prize.
10 February 2021
Archaeologists are generating a 65,000-year-old rainfall record from ancient food scraps found at Australia’s earliest-known site of human occupation.
26 January 2021
A leading University of Queensland academic is using his research to improve vaccination rates across the country.
17 December 2020
Australia’s leading urban Aboriginal art collective, proppaNOW, will present its first exhibition at a major institution when OCCURRENT AFFAIR opens at ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû Art Museum on 13 February 2021.
27 November 2020
COVID-19 has exposed fault lines in the education system for already disadvantaged students who are more likely to be severely impacted by the pandemic.
26 November 2020
The high rate of adolescent motherhood across developing countries isn’t shifting, with reductions either modest or absent in some regions and rising in others, according to University of Queensland-led research.
25 November 2020
University of Queensland researchers have debunked the theory that asylum seekers pose a terrorism threat in Australia.
3 November 2020
Queensland has the highest regional MDMA consumption in Australia and the second highest of cocaine and methyl amphetamine, according to a report released by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission today.
29 October 2020
Combing archives for information on the use of restraints on Indigenous Australians led University of Queensland scholar Max Brierty to reflect on his family’s experiences.
8 October 2020
Sweeping changes to national aged care funding in the past decade have resulted in worse mental health for older Australians, University of Queensland research shows.
30 September 2020
A study is under way to investigate how ‘smart’ devices may be helping to facilitate domestic abuse in Australia and the United Kingdom.
18 September 2020
University of Queensland psychology experts will work with police to develop and upgrade training programs for police investigating child abuse.
10 September 2020
Prolific author Professor Anita Heiss has promoted Indigenous language and literacy in many and diverse ways – but her latest venture is particularly novel.
1 September 2020
University of Queensland researchers reveal how alcohol advertisers are using social media to prey on parents and encourage drinking as a way to cope with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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